Recall Everyday Math in Long Valley NJ

The table below is reprinted from the Morris County Clerk’s office website:

http://www.morriselectionresults.org/school_board.htm

Reviewing vote total when each voter can make three choices can be confusing. Here is my analysis:

Adding tallied votes and under votes: 5269+1828=7097 total votes. (7097 is not divisible by 3, but maybe they added with everyday math. We’ll use a rounded answer.)

Each voter was supposed to vote for three candidates, therefore, 7097/3 = 2,366 people came in to vote for the school board on April 15. I broke down the vote total into percentages of the number of people who voted:

Frenchman 922/2366 = 39.0 %

Antonelle 1119/2366 = 47.3 %

Healy 1127/2366 = 47.6%

Roehrich 1155/2366 = 48.8%

Graziano 915/2366 = 38.6%

Note that none of the candidates received the support of 50% of the people who went in to vote. Frenchman campaigned on the sole issue of everyday math. By this, it seems that almost 40% of the town is against everyday math. Roehrich seemed to come out at the last minute as against everyday math and he received close to 50% of the voters.

It seems to me that with little publicity, at least 40% of the voters against everyday math. This is a very signifacant number. This indicates the issue demands further investigation by parents and the school board.

Joseph Benigno